We went to church yesterday. First time in ages. Well it’s the first time in ages that I have been. TW and the kids have been at least once since last spring. I have not. This was my first look at minister number one, female version, for our church. We’ve had interim ministers for two years and finally we have the real thing. (not that Reverend Barbara wasn’t the real thing, she was – but she was still interim)
Anyway, about church yesterday. Forgiveness. Duh. Yom Kippur. If there’s one thing you can usually count on with the UU folk, they’ll hit Yom Kippur with gusto. (They may not mention Jesus at Easter, or even Christmas, but that whole forgiveness thing of the Jews – UUs can handle that without problem.)
Interesting little sermon given by this new minister. We had a story about an AF reserve pilot who needed forgiveness. A story about a Hispanic drunk driver who also needed forgiveness. And, the minister herself who needed forgiveness for a car accident she was involved in. Tidy little forgiveness package of stories.
I’m interested now in seeing the minister number two, male version, now. I wonder when he’s up to bat errr preach. Ack, hopefully not on the 15th because I am hoping we can skip church again. It will be GLBT feeding time at the zoo service and I’m really not into that.
Unitarian Universalists, interesting people and interesting services.
I’m still fuming a bit at the UU in Manhattan–who wanted to charge $500 for the minister to do their version of a baptism plus $500 for the use of the sanctuary. Up to that point I was happy that my daughter was back in a church going mode–and I like the way that they embrace a more universal acceptance of religions.
Interesting. I’m guessing she isn’t attending their fellowship regularly? And/or didn’t want to wait to do the ceremony when they do it for all young children of the congregation – seems like it is in May here.
Well, she had been attending pretty regularly for about a year–she really liked it, but the high price tag on the baptism put her off, it was out of her budget. She wasn’t aware of any annual baptism, more like she got the impression they didn’t usually do it.
We don’t have an annual baptism. We don’t have that many babies, so whenever we do, it’s a big thing. And we never charge. Tell her to “come on down…”